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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Peru	Moldova	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	20,963	4,244	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	21,291	4,199	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	21,631	4,154	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	21,980	4,108	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	22,339	4,059	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	22,707	4,013	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	23,055	3,966	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	23,380	3,919	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	23,708	3,873	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	23,944	3,829	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	24,087	3,788	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	24,228	3,748	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	24,364	3,709	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	24,491	3,671	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	24,607	3,633	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	24,714	3,595	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	24,812	3,558	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	24,904	3,522	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	24,999	3,485	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	25,403	3,448	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	25,966	3,412	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	26,308	3,376	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	26,508	3,339	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	26,771	3,570	17,288

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Peru

1600–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Seminario, B. (2015). El Desarrallo de la Economía Peruana en la Era Moderna, Universidad de Pacifico, Lima
1870-1901: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P, Table A2
1900-1913: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1913-1941: C.A. Bolona Behr, "Tariff Policies in Peru, 1880-1980", Ph.D. thesis, Oxford University, 1981;
1942-1950: "Cuadros del producto interno bruto en dollares de 1950", CEPAL, Santiago, October 1962, mimeographed;
1945-1950: Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, CEPAL, Santiago, 1978.

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

No separate list is published for Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.